Please help me select water softener size

[HunkyWunky]

Hi everyone,
Can you please help me select the size or capacity ? (I will go for Fleck 5810 XTR2)

water usage : 300 - 320 gallon per day

I attached the snapshot of the result table of the water quality report.
Full report is here https://www.gswater.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Water-Quality-2019-West-Orange-County.pdf


Best,

 

[Reach4]

Hardness 3.2 - 24 grains. That is quite a range.

I am thinking 2.5 cubic ft if you might be at the 24 grain level much.

If your hardness were 11 grains, then 1.5 would be appropriate.

 

[Sponsor]

 

[HunkyWunky]

Hardness 3.2 - 24 grains. That is quite a range.

I am thinking 2.5 cubic ft if you might be at the 24 grain level much.

If your hardness were 11 grains, then 1.5 would be appropriate.

Thank you very much for your reply,


I tested water hardness regularly for a few months.. It come out around 14-16

 

[Bannerman]

Since you know the water hardness at your location is 16 grains per gallon, add 3 more gpg when calculating which softener size to buy and when actually programming the softener. That will provide some allowance for times when hardness may be higher, often due to varying water consumption through the city, or when distribution system maintenance is performed.

The most common recommendation is to obtain a large enough softener to deliver at least 1 week of usable capacity while using an efficient salt setting.

The recommended salt settings that provide a balance of efficiency and good quality soft water are 6 lbs or 8 lbs salt per cuft of resin.

As your compensated water hardness is 19 gpg (16 + 3) X 320 gal/day, your softening load will be 6,080 grains/day or 42,560 grains per week.

The top row of the chart below will indicate various salt settings with the applicable usable capacities in each column below. You will see 6 lbs salt/cuft (15 lbs total) will provide 52,500 usable grains in a 2.5 cuft softener, whereas a 2 cuft unit will provide 48,000 grains when regenerated with a slightly less efficient 8 lbs/cuft (16 lbs total).

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